Today is Father's Day! And I'm on the other side of the world from mine. I didn't wake up until just before midday and was still feeling sick. We went to the restaurant for lunch, a soup called Mondongo which is made out of pig liver.
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| Found Barney! |
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| Alison has turned into a bird |
About 3pm we moved to a different restaurant for tea and wifi. The tea was delicious! We all called our dads, mine like always, said he was tired from work and had too much on his plate. My cat is fine and it was over 100F in Boulder! It was a short but nice conversation and made me miss my parents.
Katia told us she was raised by her mother after her father went to Japan and re-married. She lived near the coast. Uziel grew up in Lima with three younger sisters. Two of his sisters live in Ayacucho and are often around the restaurant, and also their children.
After our tea we went to get some dinner! While waiting for pizza Alison, Joyce, and I went to get Uziel his first Father's Day gift. He had told us earlier that he wanted a red Ferrari so we went to a nearby toy shop and got the equivalent of a Hot Wheels red car for him. It was hilarious! We took lots of pictures on the way home of us walking in the formation we would have been if we were in a car, and we tried to take a photo to make the car look real but couldn't get the focus right.
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| Uziel waits at a red light in his new Ferrari |
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| Uziel drives us home |
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| Uziel parks his car |
When we got home we had coffee and played chess. I played Uziel who said he was an amateur but he was actually pretty good! He won both games even though Joyce was advising me during the last game.
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| Game night! |
We also played a game similar to Sorry which Uziel also won. He said he was controlling our minds and maybe he was - he is tricky! Another game was a version of Jenga where each block is numbered and you roll dice and have to remove a block with that number on it. I pulled off two awesome moves, removing load bearing blocks! Finally off to bed.
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| Alison's ankle. She is the most delicious thing bugs here have ever seen! |
